i read this online

tonyheaney

I recently read this news paper altricial:

It would be worth taking a look at what you have because certain coins are commanding enormous prices. Take the 20p piece -- the copper-coloured one featuring the horse. If you find one of these from 1985, you stand to make at least €10,000 in auction.

I have a handful of coins and notes in my drawer and wandered if there are any websites that i could check their value.

Blade

That article was written in a manner to try and excite people who aren't already coin collectors, with the prospect that they might be sitting on a fortune and not know it. The reality however is that your chances of finding any kind of valuable coin in a random collection of junk decimals is slim to none. The likes of that 1985 20p for example is not something that ever got out into general circulation, though the odd few might have, your chances of finding one is close to zilch. Likewise with the few other decimal rarities, the rare ones were never released for general circulation and by now practically all of them are in the hands of dealers and collectors.

Rather than looking up the value of every single coin you have, just learn what the very few rarities are and look out for those, but don't get your hopes up... http://www.irishcoinage.com/DECCAT.HTM

tonyheaney

Blade wrote: »

That article was written in a manner to try and excite people who aren't already coin collectors, with the prospect that they might be sitting on a fortune and not know it. The reality however is that your chances of finding any kind of valuable coin in a random collection of junk decimals is slim to none. The likes of that 1985 20p for example is not something that ever got out into general circulation, though the odd few might have, your chances of finding one is close to zilch. Likewise with the few other decimal rarities, the rare ones were never released for general circulation and by now practically all of them are in the hands of dealers and collectors.

Rather than looking up the value of every single coin you have, just learn what the very few rarities are and look out for those, but don't get your hopes up... http://www.irishcoinage.com/DECCAT.HTM

do you know a site for notes?

Blade

tonyheaney wrote: »

do you know a site for notes?

I don't, sorry. Maybe someone else can help you there.

marathonm@n

notes you have in pic are only worth face value. 20p coin was never circulated. they were sent to vending machine dealers to recallibrate their machines. May be only 20 in existence if that?

Gun_money

Going on the Dublin Auctions catalogue there is 8 known of the 1985 20p